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Do Economists Have Frequent Sex?
Last year a member of the World Bank professional staff gave a lecture on development in Africa on the UC Berkeley campus. His audience asked him about rapid population growth in that continent. He immediately dismissed the question, saying that population growth did not need any special attention. It would look after itself. He was [...]
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RISBibTexAPATask shifting and sharing in Tigray, Ethiopia, to achieve comprehensive emergency obstetric care
Gessessew A, Ab Barnabas G, Prata N, Weidert K
International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 2011
Objective: To assess the contribution of nonphysician clinicians (NPCs) to comprehensive emergency obstetric care (CEmOC) in Tigray, Ethiopia. Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of the obstetric records of all women treated from January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2008, at the 11 hospitals and 2 health centers with CEmOC status in Tigray. Data were [...]
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RISBibTexAPAMicrocredit participation and nutrition outcomes among women in Peru
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2012
Bixby summer intern Rita Hamad explores the relationship between added household income and health and nutritional outcomes among women participating in microcredit services in Peru.
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RISBibTexAPACriticism of misguided Chu et al. article
Potts M, Gerdts C, Prata N, Okonofua F, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Hosang N, Weidert K, Fraser A, Bell S
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2012
Chu, Brhlikova and Pollock's article suggests the WHO rethink its decision to include misoprostol on the Essential Medi- cines List. Their paper is a sad example of workers in an elite setting advocating policies with the potential to endanger the lives of thousands of vulnerable women in low-resource settings.
Published in Journal of the [...]
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RISBibTexAPATraining traditional birth attendants to use misoprostol and an absorbent delivery mat in home births
Prata N, Quaiyum M, Passano P, Bell S, Bohl D, Hossain S, Azmi A, Begum M
Social Science & Medicine, 2012
A 50-fold disparity in maternal mortality exists between high- and low-income countries, and in most contexts, the single most common cause of maternal death is postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). In Bangladesh, as in many other low-income countries, the majority of deliveries are conducted at home by traditional birth attendants (TBAs) or family members. In the absence [...]
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RISBibTexAPAIf, when and how to tell: a qualitative study of HIV disclosure among young women in Zimbabwe
Zamudio-Haas S, Mudekunye-Mahaka I, Lambdin B, Dunbar M
Reproductive Health Matters, 2012
In the Shona culture of Zimbabwe, a high regard for childbearing contributes to strong pressures on women to have children. For young women living with HIV, consequently, disclosure of HIV status can be a central strategy to garner support for controlling fertility. This paper reports findings from qualitative interviews with 28 young women aged 16–20 [...]
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RISBibTexAPAAVAILABILITY CASE STUDY: Misoprostol in Tanzania
In 2011, VSI initiated a comprehensive assessment of the current challenges to ensuring the everyday availability of misoprostol in Tanzania, with the goal of identifying opportunities to improve access over time. This brief summarizes the key findings, recommendations and sample activities to accelerate progress toward increased availability of this essential medicine in Tanzania.
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RISBibTexAPAVSIDistribution of Misoprostol at Antenatal Care Visits for the Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage in Ghana
This brief summarizes the final results from a collaborative project of the VSI/Ghana Health Service pilot program in Ghana to address maternal deaths due to postpartum hemorrhage. The results demonstrate that the distribution of misoprostol through antenatal care visits increased the number of women who received protection from postpartum hemorrhage and is a key opportunity to reach more mothers with safe motherhood messages and ultimately reduce maternal deaths.
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RISBibTexAPAVSIContraceptive Pocket Guide for Clinicians
A pocket reference for clinicians, this Contraceptive Pocket Guide details the contraceptive methods that can be used after postabortion care services both with misoprostol and manual vacuum aspiration (MVA).
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The remarkable story of Romanian women’s struggle to manage their fertility
Horga M, Gerdts C, Potts M
Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2012
In 1957, along with many countries in Eastern Europe, Romania liberalised its abortion law. The Soviet model of birth control made surgical abortion easily available, but put restrictions on access to modern contraceptives, leading to an exceptionally high abortion rate. By the mid-1960s there were 1 100 000 abortions performed each year in Romania, a lifetime [...]
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